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I think you trivialize the work that was involved in doing a film at this scale, and you're trying to sell a fantasy to amateurs who don't know any better. They're not going to be able to recreate...

The LG's are a known quantity, everybody has them in LA, and our calibration engineer likes them.

I would say 2/3 of the film used de-aging VFX, from what I remember of it after seeing it a week ago.

Most of the look of the film was done on the set by DP Lawrence Sher, as well as the color-correction by Jill Bogdanowicz at CO3/Santa Monica. What I see in the video doesn't look a thing like what...

Yes, we're switching over to the C9 this week at our facility. It was time. We could've just gotten a new C8, but I figured, what the hell.

I have (reluctantly) used the PVM-250A (or maybe it was an A250) at a client's facility for color on a feature, and I was not very happy with it. To me, it's kind of a half-ass monitor. I think it'd...

If you've been working on Macs all this time, why not wait for the 2019 Mac Pro?

My solution for a workflow issue like editing 8K material would be to transcode it all to a lower-res format, edit...

At this link:

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Does this mean Red will allow Apple to develop ProRes Raw?

And what about the Afterburner hardware option for the 2019 Mac Pro? Will Red permit Apple to sell this?

I just used 16.1.1 on a small project yesterday as a test, and it was fine for me (under Mac OSX 10.14.6, which I think is the minimum OS required). No issues with performance that I can see... yet.

I know quite a few LA colorists who are lobbying to do a separate SDR pass first, then do an HDR trim pass (rather than vice-versa), because at the moment the SDR is being scrutinized by far more...

All I can say is, I tried playing back 8K Raw last year at 1/8th resolution on a music video project, and my poor Trashcan Mac almost caught on fire. Not a wise idea. We were able to finish it, but...

Was the display calibrated?

Was the project graded by an experienced colorist?

If the answer to both is "yes," then I would check it on scopes and see if what you think see is actually in the...

Depends on how it's set up.

Yes, I think Dermot is 100% right here. NR is not a "one size fits all" process.

I typically use it only with noisy underexposed shots, and let the bright day stuff go, assuming it looks good. It...

It is frustrating that Apple will not make a full "desktop replacement" laptop, like the ones they used to make.

In truth, there are good reasons to edit with proxies/transcodes, for the simple...

Jannard is an amazing man. I hope he'll consider writing an autobiography -- he's got some stories to tell.

Jason Bowdach has an interesting article on film emulation over on Frame.io this month:

https://blog.frame.io/2019/10/21/emulating-film-look/

Note that The Island and Bad Boys II were both shot on film, so the aesthetic is quite a bit different than Michael Bay's digital productions. Stefan Sonnenfeld did digitally color-time both films,...

There's a lot of "it depends" to this, and there's an art in deciding how narrow or how wide to grab a key, and how to use (or not use) softness to make the key more gentle and gradual. And to some...

No, you'll find that the results with a LUT will also vary widely shot to shot as well. There's nothing "magical" about a LUT: it's just a mathematical version of a color correction. You can modify...

Note that LUTs tend to be fairly destructive, and you may be able to match the look without unnecessarily crushing or clipping the image with a film-emulation LUT. There are some who do a node before...

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That is kind of true, but there are advantages to taking Long-GOP H.264 material and converting it to even 8-bit ProRes or DNxHD, provided it's at a decent compression rate. We routinely take any...

The flaw with this approach (or a Timeline NR grade) is you risk NR smear from one cut to the next, particularly in very high contrast/extreme noise situations, like a bare lightbulb in a black room...